In a way, that makes the list more important: it reflects what people who don't think think. Unfortunately, these people make up a goodly portion of the media and political establishment in Washington.

Other than a lone Republican—Maine Senator Susan Collins, who is praised for bipartisanship—the list is a coffee klatch for mostly left-leaning Democrats. I picture the Elle editors getting together in Anna Wintour-inspired outfits and concocting the list. In addition to Senator Collins, it included:

They are all dressed in the right ideas, but some of tidbits about them are unintentionally funny.

There is the Horatio Alger—of sorts—story:

At 16, Pritzker asked her grandfather for a role in the (formerly all-male) family hotel business. She grew up to run large parts of the Pritzker empire.

There’s the “policy whisperer:”

At CAP [Tanden is] the policy whisperer for progressives and was an architect of Obamacare but says, “Of course, I didn’t work on the website!”

Alas, some of these women apparently missed the “Ban Bossy” memo:

Kim Kingsley, COO of Politico: “At Politico I found out pretty quickly that I had strong instincts and liked calling the shots.”

And you know how “in” diversity is! Well, this is a list that the editors of Elle, bless their hearts, regard as diverse. Breitbart takes note:

Ironically, Elle's Editor-in-Chief Robbie Meyers explained on Morning Joe "We’re looking for diversity, and certainly unique [?] and powerful women, but also those women who have something going on right now and that [sic] are really sort of very much in the mix of things."

Diversity? Not so much.

And of course that is what the list is about: being really sort of very much in the mix of things.

My brain needs a detox day.

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